NORC will produce draft agendas for the Committee’s next meetings (December 17, 2008 and January 7-8, 2009) and will send them to the Committee Chair and Vice-Chair for review.

I. Introductory Remarks

RADM Penelope Slade Royall, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), welcomed the audience. The Advisory Committee had been engaged in extensive deliberation since January, 2008, and she noted that the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is eager to receive the Committee’s Phase I report and recommendations. The Federal Interagency Workgroup (FIW) has been finishing its recommendations for key elements of Healthy People 2020, which it will transmit to the HHS Secretary before the end of the year. RADM Royall introduced the Committee’s Chair, Dr. Jonathan Fielding.

II. Desired Outcomes of the Meeting

Dr. Fielding explained that the main purposes of the meeting would be to:

provide an overview of how the report has evolved since the Committee members last reviewed it;

offer an opportunity for final discussion of the draft before it is approved and submitted to the Secretary;

vote on approval of the report with any final revisions, and

begin discussion of the Committee’s charge for Phase II.

III. Overview of Final Draft, Phase I Report

Reorganization of Content

Dr. Fielding explained that the report had been significantly reorganized since the members had last reviewed it. Initial drafts had been prepared by knitting together the separate deliverables of the subcommittees. These drafts explained the Committee’s recommendations, cross-cutting themes, and background on the Healthy People initiative. The second draft also included an executive summary that presented a broad-brush overview of the framework, which was detailed in the main body of the report.1

To streamline Draft 3 and improve the report’s readability, sections of text (e.g., the timeline for the Committee’s work, past processes for developing objectives, past challenges, and a summary of feedback from the Healthy People 2010 User Study) were moved to appendices. A detailed explanation of the Advisory Committee’s recommendations for the form and framework of Healthy People 2020 was provided; beneath each goal, an explanation was provided of what that goal is about and how it is to be accomplished. There had been numerous small revisions to the document, but Dr. Fielding said the Committee’s discussion should focus on significant revisions. He added that the Committee recently received comments from Dr. Michael McGinnis, who was involved in the first three Healthy People iterations; these comments would be discussed.

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Draft 2 of the report had been distributed to Committee members and external reviewers via email on September 12, 2008. Their comments were due to NORC staff one week later. Dr. Fielding and Dr. Kumanyika worked with NORC staff to revise the document in order to address members’ and reviewers’ comments and suggestions.